Harry Bernstein
{{Short description|American writer}}
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| birth_name = Harry Louis Bernstein
| birth_place = Stockport, England
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| death_place = Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = American
| period = 2007–2011
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Harry Louis Bernstein (May 30, 1910 – June 3, 2011) was a British-born American writer. Bernstein lived in Brick Township, New Jersey.Rich, Motoko. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/books/07bern.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin "Successful at 96, Writer Has More to Say"], The New York Times, April 7, 2007. Accessed June 22, 2008. He died at the age of 101, on June 3, 2011.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/books/harry-bernstein-writer-who-gained-fame-at-96-dies-at-101.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries|title=Harry Bernstein, Writer Who Gained Fame at 96, Dies at 101| author=William Grimes| author-link=William Grimes (journalist)|work=The New York Times|date=June 7, 2011}}
Biographical information
Before his retirement at age 62, Bernstein worked for movie production companies as a script reader and as a magazine editor for trade magazines. He wrote freelance articles for such publications as Popular Mechanics, Family Circle and Newsweek.
Writing
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, his first-published book, dealt with a number of topics, including with his long-suffering mother Ada's struggle to feed her 6 children, an abusive, alcoholic father, the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish neighbors encountered growing up in a Cheshire mill town (Stockport, now part of Greater Manchester) in northwest England; the loss of Jews and Christians from the community in World War I, and the Romeo and Juliet romance experienced by his sister Lily and her Christian boyfriend. The book was started when Bernstein was 93 and published in 2007, when he was 96.{{Cite web |date=2007 |title=The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers {{!}} Jewish Book Council |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-invisible-wall-a-love-story-that-broke-barriers |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=www.jewishbookcouncil.org |language=en}} The loneliness he encountered following the death of his wife, Ruby, in 2002, after 67 years of marriage, was the catalyst for the work.
The Dream (2008) is centered on his family's move to the West Side of Chicago in 1922 when he was twelve. The Golden Willow (2009), chronicles his married life and later years. A fourth book, What Happened to Rose, was set to be published posthumously in 2012. It was published in 2013 in Italian, under the title La Sognatrice Bugiarda (translated as The Lying Dreamer).{{Cite web |title=La Sognatrice Bugiarda |url=https://www.edizpiemme.it/libri/la-sognatrice-bugiarda |website=Piemme}}
References
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Sources
- [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/arts/memoir.php Article from International Herald Tribune]
- [http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070403/LIFE/704030329 Article from South Coast Today] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202037/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070403/LIFE/704030329 |date=2016-03-03 }}
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/books/04grim.html?ex=1177214400&en=be2fafaf831a01c1&ei=5070 Article from New York Times]
- [http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/03/31/author_96_proves_its_never_too_late/?p1=MEWell_Pos4 Article from Boston Globe]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100622022446/http://brucefrankel.net/index.php/site/articles/author_harry_bernstein_celebrates_100th_birthday_and_closes_in_on_four/ Harry Bernstein's 100th Birthday]
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Category:21st-century American Jews
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:21st-century American memoirists
Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American men centenarians
Category:American magazine editors
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American people of English-Jewish descent
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:Jewish American memoirists
Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers
Category:People from Brick Township, New Jersey